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...television while the actual committee is sitting here." He's also letting C-SPAN's cameras, the electorate's virtual eyeballs, peer into more congressional hearings. And under a new program called "Thomas," after Thomas Jefferson, all House documents are being put on the Internet for mass perusal by modem. Thomas, says Gingrich, will shift power "toward the citizens out of the Beltway." It will get "legislative materials beyond the cynicism of the elite." And as this online material sparks online debate, Americans can "begin to have electronic town-hall meetings...
Technologies ranging from the telegraph to the telephone, from typewriter to carbon paper have all made mass organization easier and cheaper. And since the 1960s, the technologies have unfolded relentlessly: computerized mass mailing, the personal computer and printer, the fax, the modem and increasingly supple software for keeping tabs on members or prospective members. The number of associations, both political and apolitical, has grown in lockstep with these advances. One bellwether -- the size of the American Society of Association Executives -- went from 2,000 in 1965 to 20,000 in 1990. As for sheerly political organizations: no one knows exactly...
Already the spontaneous formation of a single-issue interest group has been seen on the Net. In 1993 the Federal Government announced plans to promote the Clipper chip, which would have ensured the government's ability to decipher / messages sent over phone lines by modem. The circulation of an anti-Clipper petition turned into a kind of impromptu online civil-liberties demonstration, boosting the number of signatures from...
...recent phone call. Paul Haas in Ypsilanti, Michigan, has hooked a computer to his refrigerator and hot tub to report their respective temperatures. In Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Michael Witbrock uses a voice synthesizer to let online visitors "talk" to the cat that likes to sleep in the warmth of his modem...
...online services grow? Given the state of technology today, there are limits. For one, only homes with computers and modems can plug in. And since sending photos and movies over phone lines is still relatively time consuming, the market is pretty much restricted to users who like to read and write. Yet the online services are not standing still. CompuServe has begun supplementing its offerings with CD-ROMS, combining the interactivity of a live, online connection with all the sound and animation that can be squeezed onto a CD. Prodigy plans to deliver its service to 200,000 cable...